Sean Bean is clearly a good person

[andrewducker]

"Another story — and this really is an index of the real man… I met him in LAX (Los Angeles Airport), he'd come direct from New Zealand. We were both going to London.. He was carrying what seemed like 20 bags and he's got this old man and old lady there. I asked Sean if I could give him a hand. After waiting a few minutes, I asked whether he was going to introduce me to his friends. 'Is this your Mum and Dad?' He said he'd love to introduce me to them, but he didn't know their names. The rather dazed old couple introduce themselves…they were just an old couple who had been on the plane and had been struggling with their luggage, he'd decided to help them out. They had no idea who he was. We get to Heathrow and I'm running for a connection and out of the corner of my eye, I can see Sean very patiently taking their bags off, stacking them and steering them through customs. I don't believe, to this day, they had any idea who he was. The man is pure gold. I love him to death. He's just a thoroughly good man and a marvelous actor."

- John Rhys-Davies
via skreidle

Comments

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's nice. I know it should make no difference to the enjoyment of their films whether the actors are nice people are not, but it's still nice to know when they are decent people. Reminds me of everyone who popped up to say how nice Keanu Reeves was when there was a picture doing the rounds of him looking sad.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

In the end they're just people, but it's nice to see the people we place on a pedestal (in one way or another) demonstrate that they haven't lost their humanity when they gained their fame.

My current/recent favorite? Mark Buehrle, who was recently signed to the Miami for a four year, $58 million deal -- but he and his family aren't moving into Miami-Dade County because their beloved AmStaff is banned there under the county's ridiculous pit bull ban.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

And he plays tough guys and villains so well.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Recently watched an episode of The Bill from 1984 or 85, in which he is one of two robbers.